UK SMART RECOVERY

Registered charity 1160516 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UKSR · also registered in Scotland as SC046247 (OSCR)

UK SMART Recovery is a science-based program to help people manage their recovery from any type of addictive behaviour who provide support meetings both in the community and at some service providers who are in Partnership with us

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND SAVE LIVES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH PROBLEMS CAUSED BY ANY TYPE OF SUBSTANCE OR ACTIVITY DEPENDENCE BY:1. RELIEVING THE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF THOSE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WHOSE DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY IS IMPAIRED BY SUCH DEPENDENCE;2. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT, AND PROMOTING A BETTER AND MORE SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING OF, THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF SUCH DEPENDENCE; AND3. ADVOCATING FOR A GREATER CHOICE IN RECOVERY OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM PROBLEMS CAUSED BY ANY TYPE OF SUCH DEPENDENCE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £82,578 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £246,225. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of six months of operational costs, calculated at £219,000, which the current unrestricted reserves exceed. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ritsons. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09225444

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UK SMART Recovery (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FLEMING, Andrew John — director, appointed 09/03/2026not on trustee list
• ROBERTS, David — director, appointed 11/09/2025on trustee list
• WALKER, Natalie — director, appointed 11/09/2025on trustee list
• HEIM, Stephan Derek — director, appointed 01/02/2023on trustee list
• MACLEAN, Alan John — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• MCGEOCH, Lesley — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Maclean
• David Roberts
• Ian Preece
• Lesley McGeoch
• Natalie Walker
• Shiv Kumar Sharma
• Stephan Derek Heim
• Stephen Derek Heim

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST. MARY ABBOTS REHABILITATION AND TRAINING PROJECTS (SMART).

• ST. MARY ABBOTS REHABILITATION AND TRAINING PROJECTS (SMART) income £1.7m
• ESSEX RECOVERY FOUNDATION income £755k
• RECOVERY WORKS LIMITED income £925k
• SMART CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES income £1.3m
• BEACON RECOVERY income £572k
• Recover Together income £801k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.